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 "title": "The Golden Prison",
 "ordinal": "CLXVIII",
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 "poet": "John Henry Newman",
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    "text": "Weep not for me, when I am gone,",
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   {
    "text": "Nor spend thy faithful breath",
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    "text": "In grieving o’er the spot or hour",
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    "text": "Of all-enshrouding death;",
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    "text": "Nor waste in idle praise thy love",
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   {
    "text": "On deeds of head or hand,",
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   {
    "text": "Which live within the living Book,",
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    "text": "Or else are writ in sand;",
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    "text": "But let it be thy best of prayers,",
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   {
    "text": "That I may find the grace",
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    "text": "To reach the holy house of toll,",
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    "text": "The frontier penance-place⁠—",
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    "text": "To reach that golden palace bright,",
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    "text": "Where souls elect abide,",
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   {
    "text": "Waiting their certain call to Heaven,",
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    "text": "With Angels at their side;",
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    "text": "Where hate, nor pride, nor fear torments",
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    "text": "The transitory guest,",
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    "text": "But in the willing agony",
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    "text": "He plunges, and is blest.",
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    "text": "And as the fainting patriarch gain’d",
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    "text": "His needful halt mid-way,",
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    "text": "And then refresh’d pursued his path,",
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    "text": "Where up the mount it lay,",
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    "text": "So pray, that, rescued from the storm",
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    "text": "Of heaven’s eternal ire,",
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    "text": "I may lie down, then rise again,",
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    "text": "Safe, and yet saved by fire.",
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